Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century (1903)
Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925, Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935, Hommel, Fritz, 1854-1936, Jensen, P. (Peter), 1861-1936, Steindorff, Georg, 1861-1951 · Philadelphia : A. J. Holman · leaf 629
n the school exercises previously treated. That artin general was greatly esteemed and cultivated by the priestsof Nippur may be inferred from the considerable numberof clay figurines, terra-cotta reliefs and even fragments ofsculpture (the head of a negro, etc.) discovered in the ruinsof the… … Beltis leading a Worshipper reliefs of the later period made from different moulds andexhibiting a hog/ the animal sacred to the god Ninib,^ son of Bel ; or to an exquis-itely modelled buffalo^ walk-ing slowly and heavily, andholdinor his mouth and noseupward in a manner charac-teristic of these…
